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The government's efforts to speed up housebuilding are sowing division in communities, a Conservative politician has said.

Former-MP Craig Williams, along with 14 co-defendants, faces a wait of more than two years for trial. The former aide to ...

Norman Tebbit, who has died aged 94, was a British polit­ical bruiser who, unexpectedly for many, proved a highly effective cabinet minister for Margaret Thatcher. Firmly on the right of the ...

Sir Jake Berry, the former Conservative Party chairman, has defected to Reform UK. The close ally of Boris Johnson confirmed ...

Ex-Welsh secretary David Jones becomes the third former Tory to join Nigel Farage's party in the last two weeks.

A former Conservative MP who twice lost the party whip has joined Reform UK to head up its social care policy team.

Ex-Tory chairman Sir Jake Berry has defected to Reform, in the latest blow to the Conservatives. The former MP for Rossendale ...

In one exchange, he asked if they could help him “get the wording right”, which he could then “convert into parliamentary ...

For the time being Jones will not seek elected office, unlike fellow ex-Tory MP Dame Andrea Jenkyns who was recently elected ...

The former MP for Rossendale and Darwen said he joined Nigel Farage's party because the Tories had 'lost their way' ...